Testicular Slingshot

I believe the future will get worse before it gets better. When AI becomes advanced enough to drive out humans from most jobs, that's going to cause some big issues, but I think it will eventually even out, depending on how we proceed. A life of humans and robots coexisting and not having to worry about working to pay the bills could be nice.

Mind if I snag your version of it?

I've been fiddling with compiling the official viewer, and it seems OpenJPEG 1.5 is broken in the latest build. I've looked around and found Kitty Barnett's patch in Catznip for v2.3, which sorta works, but I've noticed when textures aren't fully loaded, they appear corrupted looking. I've noticed that Firestorm is using v2.4 for OS builds, and I can't figure out what they did to make it fully work. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Multidimensional lists can be done with one list using math to get the true index of an item. They can't be jagged arrays though from what I can figure out, as that would require traversing the list, and keeping track of how many items is in each sub-list, which adds a lot of overhead. I hope that makes sense.

Not exactly. What I wanted to do was make a "transpiler" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler ), which would just translate some source code into LSL that could then be copy-pasted into the viewer's editor.

This is a pretty interesting idea, but I'm not sure if I want to mess around with the preprocessor. Still would be cool to have though.

I would like the community's opinion on this subject to see if it's a worthwhile project to pursue. For a while now, I've been thinking about creating a program that lets you write LSL scripts in another programming language, such as Python, or Java. With such a thing, you could introduce new abstractions to LSL like classes, dictionaries, switch statements, and shortcuts for tedious code. However, there's a lot of differences between these languages, so there would be some inescapable oddities like requiring typecasts on list items. I'm confident that I would be able to create this tool by myself, but I would like to know what other people think of such an idea. Which source language would people prefer to use for writing LSL scripts? Thanks for your time!